For a while I’ve been tinkering around with a simple project – an Arduino-based temperature (and humidity) monitor that outputs a webpage on my home LAN. The Arduino I used was the Freetronics EtherTen, a quality product.
Check out the code at https://github.com/gjhmac/TempMonHTTP.
I’m going to compile and maintain this list to assist in distinguishing aviary escapees from over-travelling legitimate wild birds (relative to the Perth metro area).
I have just finished reading Matt Parker’s book “Humble Pi: A Comedy of Maths Errors” (ISBN 9780241360194). It is a very entertaining and enjoyable read. Matt’s background research and analysis on each of the errors is excellent.
Recommended reading for anyone with an interest in Mathematics, Engineering, Computers…
One of my tasks as an undergraduate in the engineering firm I was working at was to look after the website. Back then knowing a little HTML and how to use FTP wasn’t as common as it is now.
The web hosting company we used provided quite detailed logs for all of our virtual visitors. By looking at the IP addresses in the logs it was possible to speculate (the key word here being speculate) which company the visitor worked at.
Our sales and marketing guy caught wind of these logs and suggested we send emails to the companies we suspected had had one of their employees visit our site asking if we could be of any assistance or if they required any further information.
I explained that a) we didn’t 100% know that they had visited and b) this raised all sorts of privacy issues. Plus to me this sort of practice was creepy and not how the Internet was supposed to work.
How naive was I?
It’s looking like a big September coming up for me with the probable release of iPadOS (for my iPad), iOS13 (for my iPhone) and the remainder of Season 1 of Disenchantment (for my eyes and ears). Exciting times!
I recently read Martin Wainwright’s book on the venerable Mini titled “A Mini Adventure: The Iconic Small Car” (ISBN 9781781317112). It was a thoroughly enjoyable read, an entertaining combination of the history of the Mini and it’s status today.
The new iPad (iPad 6th Generation (128GB)) has been fantastic. I’m now hanging out for some of the goodies promised in iOS 13 (or iPadOS as it may be)…
Unfortunately I can’t say the same about the keyboard/case I selected to go with it (Logitech Slim Folio iPad Keyboard Case). Firstly, the top part of the keyboard seemed to rub on the iPad screen (thankfully only damaging the screen protector). Secondly, the keys are quite fragile and it wasn’t long before one had popped off after the mechanism had broken. To be fair I may have gotten unlucky, plenty of other people online recommend this keyboard/case.
After abandoning the keyboard/case I purchased an STM case and an external Logitech K380 Bluetooth keyboard. Both are going well.
After a number of years on Blogger I have decided to host this blog on my own domain using WordPress.
Stay tuned, some new posts are on the way!
If you require an SD card interface for your Arduino project I highly recommend purchasing an Arduino with one built-in. It took three attempts to get an SD card interface added to my basic Arduino Mega:
I would have been better off spending the extra coin on a Mega with the SD card interface built-in and reclaiming most of my weekend…